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North Point: a Hidden Gem Walking Tour The Cambridge Pedestrian Committee presents: North Point Tour Map: MBTA Maintenance North Point: Facility A Hidden Gem END Saturday, June 20, 2015 10 8 11:00 am – 12:30 pm 9 Start: 11:00 am Lechmere Canal Park, at the gazebo behind the mall End: 12:30 pm, 24 East Street 6 (Off Monsignor O’Brien Hwy) ART Gilman Bridge 5 ST 4 3 Sponsored by: 7 2 1 Cambridgeside Galleria (Commuter Rail) 1/4 mile -or- 5 minutes walking N Data sources: OpenStreetMaps, Hubway (Rapid Transit) 1. Lechmere Canal 3. North Bank Bridge 5. Miller’s River 8. Twenty|20 Once a tidal estuary and considerably longer than it is today, the Miller’s River began being filled in to create land for railroad and industrial purposes during the 19th century. Today all that remains is the short, polluted water visible under the North Bank Bridge; underground portions are believed responsible for flooding in Somerville and East Cambridge. Developer HYM and Canyon-Johnson’s new residential building at NorthPoint. Attached to the north side of the 6. Lynch Family Skate Park building is the newly completed Brian P. Murphy Memorial Staircase, a pedestrian and bike connection to the adjacent Gilmore Bridge, providing a fast and convenient route to the Constructed in 1895 and named after an early local family, Opened in 2012 and also part of Big Dig mitigation, the Orange Line’s Community College station. the canal was part of an active seaport until the Charles North Bank Bridge is the first of three proposed bridges River Dam Bridge was built in 1910. Lechmere Canal in the basin. It connects North Point Park in Cambridge 9. NorthPoint Common Park is the centerpiece of the East Cambridge riverfront with Paul Revere Park in Charlestown, gracefully rising plan developed in 1978 by the City of Cambridge. On over the Miller’s River and rail lines leading out from the same site is the CambridgeSide Galleria, completed North Station. in 1990 as an urban center with over 120 shops and restaurants. CambridgeSide supports many community 4. Paul Revere Park events, promoting healthy activities for children. For more than a decade, the Charles River Conservancy has worked with DCR and supporters toward the creation of an 2. North Point Park urban skatepark. Ground was broken in April of this year on this former brownfield. Once the soil is sufficiently settled and stable and the drainage system is completed, the foundation for the bowls and streetscape can be built. A new linear park with grassy knolls, benches, small ponds and WiFi. The multi use path running alongside it is a link in 7. EF Education First the long sought bicycle network connecting the Minuteman Bikeway and Somerville’s Community Path to downtown Boston. 10. 24 East Street Located at the mouth of the Charles River and next to a set of locks (which one can walk across to reach North Station), Paul Revere Park in Charlestown lies along Boston’s Harborwalk. It too was once part of the “lost half Built as mitigation for the Big Dig on what was once mile.” called the “lost half mile” of the Charles, due to its former concentration on heavy industry, this wonderful park on This temporary building near the site of the new Lechmere the riverbank with a view of the Zakim Bridge contains EF’s new building, its second at North Point, opened in T station houses a 3-D model of NorthPoint at full build playgrounds, paths and and fields. October 2014. In addition to workspace for its employees, this building contains the Lingo restaurant and public restrooms. out, including the reconstruction of O’Brien Highway into a The 50-year-old international company provides educational boulevard with cycle tracks and future plans for the site of the tours, exchanges and English language courses. current station..
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